Samantha Mangan’s mother remembered at Stardust inquest

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Samantha Mangan spoke about her mother, Helena, at the Dublin Coroner’s Court inquest on 11 May 2023, describing the impact of losing her in the Stardust fire.

Mangan was four and a half when her mother died. She told the inquest that she spent years imagining Helena had survived the fire and might return; as a teenager, she looked for her on the streets.

Mangan said that reading the coroner’s report in 2019 deeply affected her. She described feeling like a child trapped in an adult body and asked why there had been no justice for her mother and the other victims.